A few weeks ago I read an article on the Stepcase Lifehack blog titled “How to Be Offended” by Dustin Wax who teaches anthropology and gender studies at UNLV. The article addresses an issue I continue to struggle with – how do we deal with racism. Wax’s reflections from his teaching experience in a course [...]
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A Positive Framework to Respond to Offense
Posted in Constructive, tagged Constructive, Constructive Dialog, conversation, offensive, positive, Possibility, Race Relations, Racism, self improvement on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Science of Predicting Racism
Posted in Online Video Reviews, tagged diversity, education, election, high school, nate silver, neighbors, prediction, Racism, science, ted on June 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Racism exists all over the globe, but is there a way to predict where racism is more likely to exist?
Nate Silver, statistician and journalist, says he has an answer.
In analyzing the results of the 2008 Presidential election, Silver has found two factors that decrease the probability of the existence of high levels of racism in [...]
How To Identify Racism That Doesn’t Sound Racist
Posted in Books, New Age Racism, tagged prejudice, Racism, racists, systemic racism, Truth on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Racism has become more and more difficult to identify partly because it sounds less and less like what we traditionally associate racism to sound like. Gone are the days where racial epithets are the only form of verbal racism. Today racial epithets are only the most identifiable form of verbal racism. So what does racism [...]
Ice Cream Social Tonight at the Magic House
Posted in Community Spotlight, Uncategorized, tagged cfuh, ice cream, Kirkwood, magic house, Meacham Park on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post will be short as I am still recuperating from my trip to New York and Connecticut over the weekend for the Commitment to Justice Conference at Fairfield University.
So come to the ice cream social tonight at the Magic House, sponsored by Community for Understanding and Hope to catch up with me. The event [...]
What Is Racism…and the “R” Word
Posted in Constructive, Definitions, tagged Constructive, Constructive Dialog, discussion, Racism, self-reflection, systemic racism on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the initial barriers to discussing racism is that people often have different ideas of what racism means. Is racism simply the act of an individual expressing his or her prejudice to dehumanize or impede the advancement of people of color? Not quite.
As Frances E. Kendall writes in Understanding White Privilege, racism “is about [...]
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